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Tuesday, September 06, 2005

Ouch

Updated
I wish I could take credit for this comment re: the picture on the right, but someone else said it and I'm just quoting:
"Roberts obviously needs a laxative in the worst way... and Sandra totally gets it. She's been there."
I suppose Roberts isn't the worst possible choice for a future Chief Justice, but this really doesn't make it ok. I grabbed this picture from this newsweek article, which I haven't had time to finish reading yet as I've got this job thing that I'm supposed to be doing during the day.
Either way, it sounds like the person being interviewed in the article thinks that the Supreme Court wields a lot of power and should be regarded as more of an authority/threat. Oddly, I haven't read enough of the article to figure out if the interviewee thinks that the Court has been wielding too many decisions towards the right or the left... This quote summarizes the side that the author is obivously on.
Some of the most admired justices—in fact most of them—have not been chief justices. [Justice John] Harlan, [Justice Felix] Frankfurter, [Justice Benjamin] Cardozo, [Justice Louis] Brandeis and so forth. And for me I would include—from my own ideological perspective—[Justice Antonin] Scalia and [Justice Clarence] Thomas. None of them were chiefs. I think many agree that they were among the brightest of the justices, whether one concurs with their positions or not.

I'll finish reading the article, but anyone who admires Scalia and Thomas doesn't usually get much of my respect.

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